How 3-Day-Old Pasta Was the End of a Family of 7 

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I know it might seem wasteful but always remember these simple food-safety rules: First in first out. If it went into your fridge first, be prepared to use it more or less first. Once something is frozen and then thawed do not re-freeze. Keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold. 140F 57C for hot, bellow 38F 4C for cold. And most of all: When in doubt, throw it out. If it smells, looks, feels, or for the love of coffee tastes bad don't force yourself to eat it. Pizza is cheaper than funeral costs. Again, this all sounds wasteful, but throwing it all back up and dying are bigger wastes in my book.

I love the sentence “Detecting smell is one of our body’s many defense mechanisms, and we should be mindful when our bodies tell us that something isn’t right.”

You know what's more wasteful than throwing spoiled pasta? Losing children to it. WHEN IN DOUBT, THROW IT OUT.

The upbeat commercial in between describing the death of children was callous and unsettling.

What kind of doctor feeds his son 4-day-old partially unrefrigerated pasta, whilst ignoring its smell?

One of my cousins died a couple days after thanksgiving one year. She was 22. Apparently the turkey and dinner was left out for a few hours after the family eating. She was at work and her family left the food out because she would be home in about 2 hours after they ate. The next day she was taken to the hospital and died the day after that. It’s super sad but what’s almost sadder than that is when her parents were called telling them that they’re daughters is in the hospital with food poisoning and they need to be with her because it doesn’t look like she’s going to make it, they thought it was a joke. She passed before they got there. Her grandparents were there and a little while after she passed her grandparents went to the lobby to wait for her parents so they could tell them. Her parents walked in, laughing and when her grandfather told them “she’s gone” they chuckled and said “so she went home? We knew she was over reacting”… Edit: I do feel terrible for her parents, she was an only child that they had to really try for. But if I was called and told that my daughter probably won’t make it I wouldn’t laugh… they bs’d getting to the hospital because they thought she was over reacting. Don’t ever be those parents..

My dad has a rule that if anything smells off, no matter how much is left, throw it away immediately.

My mother was a cook in a restaurant and she learned the rule of thumb with food is, "When in doubt, throw it out." That has probably saved me and my children more times than I care to think about. Better to waste food than to have it waste you.

I'm so mad at that doctor father who waited 2 days before bringing his son to the hospital. He definitely thought his knowledge is enough

Whenever people attack me for being "overly" skeptical about food being left out and smelling funky, I'll show them this. Just because there is no visible mold, doesn't mean it's fine 🙄

I'm trying to imagine a DOCTOR eating 4 day old spaghetti that had been sitting out at room temperature multiple times and SMELLED BAD thinking, "Yeah, this is safe for me and my kid to eat."

I feel so sad for these kids. Ultimately it was the parents fault for not being safer about to but goodness what a horrible way to lose a child.

Here's a tip on pasta. What you do is separate the pasta and sauce, combine them only when you need to eat it so it doesn't spoil easily. If you want to reheat, just reheat the sauce and put it together with the pasta since if you combine the two together it spoils easily. If there are bubbles and it starting to smell, throw it out

This reminds me a few years back I read about a student who died because he ate unrefrigirated pasta that was a few days old. It unlocked a new fear that's been with me for years and now it reignites as I watch this. "Pasta la vista" is very real and ya'll should stay safe

"Honey, I think I may have a foodborne pathogen." "Be serious."

My husband once entertained at a party by serving a big platter of cold 2:02 cuts. The platter sat out for 3 hours then put away. The next day my husband decided to eat some of the cold cuts. He got so sick he couldnt even walk and crawled to the phone to call an ambulance. He was treated for food poisoning at the hospital and survived but he said he never was so sick in his life.

Eating leftovers from several days ago is very weird. If I eat something from yesterday (that I keep in refrigerator), I always reheat it or boil very well before eating. Noone taught me to do so, it's just my natural feeling. It's really weird to eat not fresh food with a bad smell

I've learned from a young age that you should generally never eat stuff that a) smells off from what it's supposed to be like b) has been prepared / cooked more than 2-3 days ago c) hasn't been constantly refrigerated (unless it's food that doesn't spoil easily at room temp) Most of this is what my mother has taught me... knowledge gained after experiencing food poisoning in her youth (and also through working with fresh meat products for a few year - think butcher's shop)

As someone who is ServeSafe Certified, it doesn’t matter how careful you are in food prep, cooking, or food storage, there is a temperature in which food will grow dangerous organisms, this is called the food danger zone, you should always date your leftovers, and before heating/eating sniff them, however its not foolproof but odor is a good indicator somethings wrong. That being said it is still possible to make yourself ill from food born illnesses, just be mindful of your food, and if you experience any symptoms, however mild, of food poisoning seek out your local ER, because it’s usually mild however in the instances of severe food poisoning they can be fatal, and early detection/diagnosis is CRITICAL!

My first question is, why would you eat food when you know it smells funny and what kind of doctor lets his son eat food that has gone bad. The fact that he continuously ignored his son's deteriorating condition and tried to cure him at home instead of taking him to the hospital right away, infuriates me. His son suffered and died just because of his callousness.

I'm glad that my dad (who is a professional chef) has taught me to ALWAYS check food ever since I was little. Our house rule is to throw something away if it smells wrong, even if it's only a day old

I wanted to make a joke about this video, but then I thought, no, you have to B. Cereus.

I didnt know it was that bad. I thought diarrhea and puking were basically the worst that could happen, unless its totally rottwn or something. I always eat my leftover one or two days later, often times leaving them in the kitchen over night. I definitely will keep that video in mind.

The second story looks so fishy to me. The father is a doctor. He might not realize the food wasn't okay to eat but he realised that the food caused poisoning so he took meds right after the first symptoms. But he watched his son not healing many days. He should have realized that something was wrong. I hope the detectives investigated him after the son's death.

My girlfriend doesn't understand why I'm such a KGB agent when it comes to tossing leftovers/expired foods, but I'm the one who has taken many food handling courses, and understands that improperly stored foods can cause serious illnesses, and sometimes even death.

This is why if im at a party and there is anything like pasta, potato, or egg salad, or just anything with perishable ingredients really, if i don't know how long its been sitting out, im not eating it or taking it home. Ive also worked in food safety and so does my dad. He made ne read the food safety manuals from his food safety training every year since i was a Pre-teen. So for me, it's Food safety 101.

My brother left an egg roll on the dashboard for 8 hrs on a 100° day. We were amazed by how small it got so soon that we decided to leave it there. Didn't shrink to much after a month but by the next yr ti looked like a pretzel nugget.

As someone who has worked in restaurants most of his life, you get an intuition for this kind of stuff when it comes to cooking at home, and leftovers.

I just ate 2 day old stuffed shells STOP GIVING ME ANXIETY

OCD (even if it's mild, all things considered) makes my fear of food poisoning seem pretty unreasonable... I now have no desire to make any attempts to get over it.

How could the parents give their kids weird smelling food? I wouldn't eat it and if I had kids they are definitely not going to eat it! I feel so bad

This reminded me of two stories, although none involved b. cereus (that I know of). 1: My mother was a fridge stuffer. It was like archeology, just layers of things. It’s a miracle we all weren’t sick a lot, but my father had an iron stomach and I only ate from the front layer. When I was in college, even though I was Queen Slob, I used to clean out the fridge every time I came home because I was so disgusted. This was before cheap plastic containers, so the Tupperware and Rubbermaid had to be cleaned out 🤢 and run through the dishwasher on the hottest cycle. Looking back, I should have taken a mycology class for science gen ed credit. I could have written papers analyzing what was growing in those containers. 2: At around the same time, a fancy-ish restaurant opened in our town that was very popular, to the point where they started selling some stuff in local supermarkets. One was, iirc, Boston-style clam chowder. A couple bought some, and despite it being in the refrigerated section at the store and having KEEP REFRIGERATED on the label, these geniuses put it in the pantry. A couple weeks later they got it out, heated it up, ate it, and ended up in the hospital with severe food poisoning. The story got on the local news because it triggered a product recall. The manufacturer’s spokesperson threw some shade in the interview about doing the recall just to be safe, although following the storage directions would keep it safe to eat. They also redesigned the label so KEEP REFRIGERATED was even bigger and bolder.

As somebody who grew up with is a single mother and lived off of leftovers and very rarely through things away, if it smells funny you throw it away. Especially something like pasta which can go off very quickly.

Fingers crossed the father who is a doctor was charged with negligence and his licence was revoked. I will NEVER understand situations like this, where someone with medical knowledge and training ignores symptoms so blatantly.

I literally just came back from my microbiology lab where we did a presentation on the first case mention and how it was due to the bacteria Bacillus cereus. All of these cases are great examples of how bacteria can multiple quickly in such a short amount of time leading them to be dangerous.

My mom keeps leftovers in the fridge, whenever we eat she always checks if the food from the fridge smells bad or expired,I'm forever grateful for her making sure we eat good food 😭🫶

Wait, the dad in the second one was a doctor and he still served his kid suspicious food and didn't take the boy into the hospital for 2 days even though he was literally dying, how did he not notice the symptoms as a doctor? That sounds beyond neglectful to me

brew taught us: dont eat food dont walk dont hike dont ride airplane dont go outside dont breathe dont get diseases dont live in 90’s dont run dont live

I will never understand why people make so much pasta that they have leftovers for days 🤦 I only make as much as I'll eat right then and there.

"The father was a doctor" _Yet he did not know how poisonous that pasta could be_

The fact that I'm the one who's meticulous and super cautious in my family just shows how much they don't care. Especially my dad. I almost once ate bread which already had fungus at the bottom of the plastic bag. If I didn't notice it, I would've ended up at the hospital. All because my dad said it's still fine. Like, aren't you able to smell anything? I even fished out a vegetable which was covered in fungus a few days back. I told my mom we have to wash the whole lower compartment and get rid of the vegetables which were out of their sacks. Like, just because yoy grew up at the countryside and in poverty doesn't mean you should keep those things. I'd rather spend a bit more money to stay safe than get myself a one-way ticket to the hospital.

“The salad smelled funny” zero survival skills

Brain: *detects chemical vapor as highly dangerous* That other part of the brain: "EAT IT"

You know it's serious when the bacteria is called 'Be serious'

My husband's always on my case for throwing away leftovers. He drives me nuts with his lack of food safety.

When I hosted get togethers I would ice all the condiments and cold foods. I used those long, shallow rectangular storage containers. Place the food on plates, slightly bury plates in ice. Refill ice as needed. Hot foods stayed out for no longer than 2 hours.

I'm glad my fridge randomly freezes stuff.

My Depression era mother was strict about leftovers, but home or store bought bought canned food, too. ANY dent in a can or doubt got it thrown out, risk of toumaine was too dangerous!

Yeah after I took Microbiology, it made me so paranoid. And growing up in a very traditional Mexican home made that hard. Especially as a Catholic. We never threw bread. And my family believed only removing the "molded parts" was okay. Until I learned about spores

I would never give my children food that “smelled funny.”

I got salmonella when I was 4. My great-grandmother had a birthday party and she got some bite-sized foods from the local store for the party. I then got really sick. Later we found out the store had a blackout for a few hours, so the food was left in room temperature. Nobody else got sick, as the party was full of adults, so their bodies were much stronger and dealt with the food pretty well. I'll spare you the details but it was one of the most terrifying two weeks of my life, but in the end I was fine. My parents got so worried that from then on they would never leave food outside of the fridge and would rather cook less food so they'd be sure we ate everything and wouldn't have too many leftovers. I myself am pretty concerned about food going bad from this experience, so I always check everything. It was very eye-opening.😂 Stay safe and check your food before you eat it!🙏And DON'T make your kids eat it, if it's a bit on the edge, they're a lot more fragile.

I just went to my fridge and threw out a fair bit. It's pure luck I am still alive. Thank you for this video. I fact check with AI and learned a lot more.

Gives the phrase Be serious a whole new meaning

I think this should apply to any food and not just pasta. Although I do sometimes eat something that is out of sort and have been living through it all so far, this story has convinced me to not eat if it's changed. better be safe than sorry!

3 day old pasta salad can be fine. My guess is the pasta was actually not refrigerated properly since they went to a picnic. It was probably out in the sun all day long heating up all that mayo. and then they decided to put it back in the fridge.

That one child:I don't think I'm hungry

Watching this made me feel thankful for the knowledge i gained being a chef... Its basic stuff to know and could possibly save lives especially my life

A few years ago I had the most embarrassing choir concert of my life - I ate some pesto salad before the performance, and began violently vomiting in the back row during the final bars of the piece. I had to sit out for the second half of the concert but I recovered pretty quickly. Watching this video makes me realize how lucky I am that it wasn’t worse.

“And a fight for their children’s very lives” *cues goofy music* 😭😭😭😭

If you are going to eat leftovers make sure they're from the day before and DON'T LEAVE IT OUT THE FRIDGE. Once it cools down..to the fridge and take it out BEFORE eating. Reheat propery. Try to cook then right portion for pasta. And if there's some left, throw it away. Pasta is cheap, and it will be better than food poisoning.

my family members are all about non-waste. only exception is bad food. if it even smells a LITTLE funny, it’s over. into the bin it goes.

Learning a thing or two about İtalian food culture, pasta is *always* eaten up as soon as it's finished cooking. İf there are any leftovers (which is rare lol), we store them in an airtight container for two days *max* in the fridge, then microwave them before eating. Anything longer than that gets thrown out. Pasta was never meant to be leftovers in the first place!

I made myself a turkey sandwich with some 3 week old turkey. It was probably refrigerated properly, but the sandwich smelled off. I took a few bites and it certainly tasted kind of chemically. I eventually binned it as I became fearful it was contaminated with toxins. I was certain I was going to have some minor episode, but it never came. If I had eaten the whole sandwich, things could have been different.

My deepest condolences to the family, relatives, and friends

Bro I literally just ate some funny smelling rice a day ago because I thought “oh it would be a waste not to finish it,” and had a stomach ache a bit after. This video straight up brought my stomach ache back 😭

That settles it, eating food is way too risky. I’ll just learn how to do photosynthesis.

A few months back, I threw out some pasta salad my mom had left in her car for two hours in the FL heat. She wasn't very happy until I told her it was smelling bad. Now today sitting in my room alone I nod my head in approval of myself.

IF IT SMELLS TURNED, IT'S TURNED! WHAT CENTURY IS THIS!?

I've felt bad for avoiding leftovers that I didn't know the date on, and that they ultimately got thrown away. This makes me feel a lot better about it.

I just had Pasta leftovers from two days ago. Peace everyone✌️

"This entire family died suddenly. Anyway, you can smell nice with today's sponsor..."

I have a "nothing bad will happen" type of a family and sometimes I feel like I'm the only one keeping us from getting food poisoning.

That was the most graceless transition to a sponsor ever

I grew up from a poor family, but my parents knew when to throw food away. Food poisoning is not a joke

The worst case of this I heard of was a college student who cooked a month's worth of pasta while visiting his parents, took it back to his dorm in plastic ware containers, and left it out on the counter. He wanted to have something cheap and easy to eat, but since it wasn't properly stored, he got sick after a few days, went to go "sleep it off", and never woke up.

You know its bad when the bacteria is literally called b. cerius

Crazy how strong yet fragile the human body is. I know for a FACT I’ve eaten food that was more questionable than 3 day old food and haven’t had a bad experience with it. But that leftover food bodied 7 people….crazy

I remember how my mother used to scold me for sniffing food before ingesting it when I was a kid, telling me that such act was rude, with the pass of the years I finally was able to understand that she was unable to make the difference between good milk and spoiled milk and others with her nose, god blessed me with a high smell sense to the point that I can even tell how salty food is just by smell, now a day she always calls me to sniff refrigerated leftovers before we eat them.

I had some raw chicken that smelt strange, I cooked it anyway to see if it would be alright. After cooking for an hour I tasted and didn't even swallow the bite because it tasted strange. Your body tells you when food isn't safe, why risk your kids when all signs point to no?

My mom was always strict about this even if it smelt "good". We never had pasta salad leftovers ever, it was always thrown out if it wasn't finished same day. Anything that had egg, mayo or milk was a no no to save as leftovers. I now get it.

This is a problem with having health care professionals as parents. They thinks everything is fine unless you lost a limb or something because they are so desensitized to everything.

Horrifying. My daughter came down with what was likely norovirus after getting a fish sandwich from a restaurant I hadn't known had a rep for food safety issues, and never before had I taken a child in for "just food poisoning" and been told, "ER now, and carry her, do not let her walk." Food poisoning is No Joke.

I think some people don't realize how serious food poisoning is, it kills thousands of people. Many have the mentality of "It'll be fine, don't want to waste food". Your health and life is more important than wasting a few bites of food.

as an italian (and therefore the greatest pasta expert) we keep pasta for one day. two days tops and only for certain types. but as grandma says, if u need to smell it its already not worth the risk.

I read the linked medical journal of the pasta salad family. It said that the refrigerator temp was 14 degrees C (57 F). You might as well leave food on the counter.

It smells funny… why risk it? I don’t understand. If food smells off DON'T EAT IT!

That sponsor was the most jarring thing I've ever heard in my life. Children dead from food poisoning- YOU PROBABLY SMELL FINE. 😅 With all due respect, your content is the kind where you should do it before getting into the video. Ain't no one paying attention to scentbird when we're still getting over a nine year old dead from pasta salad

Food poisoning is no joke. When it comes to food preparation and storage, it's best to b. cereus about it!

I knew never to trust the 3-day old pasta that smelled weirdly sour.

1. Always keep your leftover in a closed container to avoid crosscontamination 2. Keep it in the fridge or freezer properly 3. Don't defroze in room temp for too long 4. Always reheat them 'til boil or super hot 5. Check your food either it smell funny, taste sour, decoloration or become slimey 6. Remember that medical care cost more than your leftover food

It's videos like these and the ones Chubbyemu does that makes me extremely paranoid about eating leftovers lol. If the leftovers are more than a day old, I won't eat it.

I definitely need to show this video to my mom. I was horrified one day to discover she cut off the moldy part of bread and ate the good part. Since then I always keep repeating about how it's a gamble to eat moldy bread like that. I'll need to monitor our food consumption better lol.

my parents called me wasteful when I threw out all the food that smelled bad or was in the refrigerator for more than a day. It's better to save money on avoidable medicines than on pasta.

My grandmother tells a story of a church homemade ice cream social, back in the 40’s, where 6 children died because the ice cream was tainted because the ice cream maker had not been cleaned properly during its last use.

I have Emetophobia (fear of throwing up) and Im always, always careful when it comes to food. When I smell something off on my food, I'll throw it out. My family gets mad at me for it sometimes. That I always waste food that can still be eaten, but better be safe than sorry!

i’ve always found it to be common sense to refrigerate your food, i think the biggest takeaway for me was to not make so much food all at once. for anyone else worried about wasting, literally just make less. if you can’t finish it in two days, downsize. much better for your wallet and your health.

Yesterday, me and my bf wanted to eat gnocchi. They were a little old, smelled a little off, but we still tried it. Once cooked, it looked worse and the smell was still somewhat present so we throw it out and made fresh pasta. I didn't know it was such a great idea!

This makes me feel better about throwing food out when it starts to smell slightly different. My family always said I was being wasteful but guess what? I never got sick from food

Food poisoning doesn’t care if you’re a medical practitioner. I ate a couple bites of a chocolate bun I left out overnight that i forgot had cream cheese in it. 30 minutes later i had horrible cramps and diarrhea, told my mom and dad I had food poisoning. My mom says “You can’t have food poisoning in 30 minutes.” She’s licensed nurse and he’s a doctor.